wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
wc [
OPTION]... [
FILE]...
wc [
OPTION]...
--files0-from=F
Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if more
than one FILE is specified. A word is a non-zero-length sequence of printable
characters delimited by white space.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in the
following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length.
-
-c, --bytes
- print the byte counts
-
-m, --chars
- print the character counts
-
-l, --lines
- print the newline counts
-
--files0-from=F
- read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated names
in file F; If F is - then read names from standard input
-
-L, --max-line-length
- print the maximum display width
-
-w, --words
- print the word counts
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO
WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Full documentation <
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) wc invocation'